03-18-2021, 12:02 PM
(03-18-2021, 11:30 AM)Dill Wrote: Hollo, The "replacement test" can be a useful exploratory tool for social analysis.
E.g., how would it sound if we replaced "Black History Month" with "White History Month"?
My only question about replacing "white" with "black" or "Asian" in your example would be--does it usefully describe the behavior of the demographic group in question? It wouldn't "sound good" if there are no, or a statistically irrelevant number, of repressed religious black men who can't get laid and so kill women. That would raise some interesting exploratory questions--like how many Black men identify as "incels"?
Your replacement would "sound good" to me, if such a category of persons becomes visible in crime statistics. I would leave off the term "typical" though--at least for a while.
Or why don't you do an actually "replacement test" and replace a stereotypically bigoted trope with another? GM was very quick to accuse Bfine of racism when Bfine posted a picture of looting in Chicago in which a black woman was the main focus of the picture (BTW it was literallt the first pic on Google images about the riots and looting in Chicago that weekend). Now if Bfine had responded with a statement like "Just another black person looting", he would rightly be accused of exactly what GM is doing in this thread, engaging in negative tropes about an ethnicity.
Your example is identical to someone making a comment about how Asians can't drive, which is a known negative trope about Asians, and replaced it with white people or black people can't drive. As neither of these are negative tropes about either of those ethnicities your "replacement" wouldn't sound racist. Thus, your "replacement test" doesn't work because being a repressed Christian is not a negative trope about black people, hence your analogy is an exceedingly poor one.
